Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

– Tony Robbins

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

– Neale Donald Walsch

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

– William Arthur Ward

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

– Robert Fulghum

Every woman wants a man who’ll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

– Rainbow Rowell

Bob Marley quote: Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the…
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

– Bob Marley

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

– Wayne Dyer

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the “right” person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.

– Deepak Chopra

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

– Dalai Lama

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

– Leo Buscaglia

Henry Winkler quote: Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

– Henry Winkler

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

– Carl Jung

The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.

– Stephen Covey

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships

– the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.

– Peter Drucker

The only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.

– Tony Robbins

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

– Leo Tolstoy

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

– Deepak Chopra

Dale Carnegie quote: When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic…
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

– Dale Carnegie

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

– Muhammad Ali

Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.

– John Gray

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

– Denis Waitley

It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.

– Sydney J. Harris

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.

– Regina Brett

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

– Charlie Chaplin

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

– Maya Angelou

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

– Elayne Boosler

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.

– Shakti Gawain

Eleanor Roosevelt quote: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

– Zig Ziglar

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

– Gilbert K. Chesterton

Don’t pursue a heart that you’re not ready to be loyal to.

– Trent Shelton

You can’t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

– Jay Leno

Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

– Leo Buscaglia

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

– Taylor Swift

Carl Jung quote: Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of…
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

– Carl Jung

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

– Hugh Mackay

When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we’re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on

– series polygamy

– until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

– Tom Robbins

I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

– Nicholas Sparks

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself

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– to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.

– Leo Buscaglia

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over

-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

– Leo Buscaglia

Khalil Gibran quote: And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth…
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

– Khalil Gibran

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

– Carl Rogers

Mignon McLaughlin quote: A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same…
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

– Mignon McLaughlin

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

– Cornel West

Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

– Erica Jong

We don’t need to explain our love. We only need to show it.

– Paulo Coelho

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

– Dinah Shore

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.